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An open road. A dead cop. A killer in the hills … I flicked on the torch, swept the surrounds. Nothing. Then I directed the beam into the trees on the other side of the road. Up on a high, jutting branch, something moved. It may have been a white face, a pale body, a curved leg. Or it may have...

In this instant bestselling thrilling mystery from Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace he's fought for. The name Easy Rawlins stirs excitement in the hearts of readers...

Private investigator Rainey Hall stumbles into a dark mystery from her past that embroils her with an underground society of artists, a dangerous new drug, and a string of violent deaths. While in high school, Rainey spent a summer taking advantage of the wildfires near Los Angeles to break into...

A novel in The L.A. Quartet. Internationally acclaimed author James Ellroy presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns—it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an...

White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues. "An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of...

From the Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series, a hard-boiled novel set in 1960s Texas in which a no-nonsense car salesman faces a tempting decision, a dangerous deal, and an alluring affair. Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers...

In this deliciously noir novel from the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll embarks on a quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child). Happy Doll is a charming, if...

"Carrarmato" Canessa, ex eroe dell'antiterrorismo, lascia l'Arma dopo una tragedia che gli cambia la vita. Ma il passato non muore mai: tra un fratello assassinato, stragi mai chiarite e confessioni che riscrivono la Storia, Canessa dovrà affrontare - indagine dopo indagine - le ombre più oscure di un Paese mai davvero pacificato. Una trilogia che intreccia noir, verità storica e un protagonista che non smette mai di rischiare tutto.

When private detective Sam Spade takes on the mysterious Miss Wonderly, he gets dragged into a deadly hunt for the Maltese Falcon - a priceless, jewel-encrusted artifact covered in black enamel that leaves a trail of corpses wherever it goes. With the San Francisco police branding him their...

Kjerringøy ist ein beliebter Ferienort, umgeben von mächtigen Bergketten und dem tosenden Meer. Aber die Idylle zerbricht, als drei Freundinnen inmitten der malerischen Landschaft eine augenlose Leiche entdecken. Die Ermittlungen führen Jakob Weber und Noora Yun Sande in eine exklusive Privatklinik, deren aalglatter Leiter jede Zusammenarbeit verweigert.

En un mundo de mentiras, descubrir la verdad puede matarte. Después de su último caso en Sevilla, Verónica pensó que todo sería como antes. Se equivocaba. Su relación con Santi se tambalea. Él está distante, ausente, como si una sombra lo envolviera. Un atentado contra la figura más importante del país apunta a Santi como uno de los posibles colaboradores.

Sie sind beste Freundinnen. Bis eine Auszeit im Paradies zum Livestream-Höllentrip wird. Ein gnadenloses Spiel um Leben und Tod beginnt! Charly und ihre drei besten Freundinnen wollen dem Alltag entfliehen und ein verlängertes Wochenende auf den Gili-Inseln verbringen. Sie wurden gezielt in eine Falle gelockt und sind Teil eines perfiden Spiels.

THE INSPIRATION FOR KILL JACKIE, NOW ON AMC+ In this audacious, lightning-paced thriller, a smart-mouthed, white-collar drug dealer--a hilariously irreverent antihero--seeks revenge when an unknown enemy takes out a contract on him. Jack Price is having a bad day. What he absolutely did not...

Bloomsbury presents Gallows Court by Martin Edwards, read by Helen MacFarlane. ‘A true master of British crime writing’ RICHARD OSMAN A superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020 LONDON, 1930 The night is sooty, sulphurous, and malign. A spate of...

Bari, inizio di dicembre, mancano pochi giorni a San Nicola. Mentre la commissaria Lolita Lobosco e il suo nuovo amore Giancarlo Caruso si godono la notte in una casetta di pescatori a Polignano, nella vicina Torre a Mare un uomo viene ammazzato nella sua villetta; sul corposaranno trovate...

A highly charged crime-thriller - launching an electrifying new series featuring PI Vince Reid - by multi-award-winning prince of the twist, J.P. Pomare. PI Vince Reid is visiting an old friend when he's offered a case he can't refuse: Why did a respected local woman open fire at a political...

“An exceptionally thoughtful literary thriller. In the depth and breadth of its story, in the lyricism of its prose, Nearshore will surely establish Steve Hawk as a writer to be reckoned with.” —Kem Nunn, author of Tapping the Source, Dogs of Winter, and Tijuana Straits “Nearshore is the...

'Breathtakingly powerful' Guardian 'This startling, absorbing book will leave you fizzing with anger and possibility' Noreen Masud In the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful stranger across a station platform. She follows him home, and over one heady night of...

“Legendary . . . Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything.” —Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review “A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores.” —Giles Harvey, The New Yorker Often called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s...

“The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges—he’s that visceral and erudite—but this wouldn’t do justice to his ambition.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh...